Hydrocarbon-burner.



G. R. KITTLE G. E. HARPHAM HYDROCARBON BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED HAY 20, 1904. RENEWED my 21, 1906.

' 968,776, Patented Jan.5,1909.-

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CHARLES KITTLE AND GEORGE E. llAillHAlvl, Oh LOB \l\'GELEE3, CALIFORXEA.

HYDROfJARBGN-BURNEE.

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Application filed I'viay 20, 1904, Serial No. 208,940. Renewed May 21,1906. Serial H 0.

in the county of Los i-ingcles and St: of

California, have invented new and useful Improvements inHydrocarboil-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

Gar-invention relates to a burner designed to burn crude petroleum bythe aid of steam or compressed air or other exnansihle iiuid; and theobject thereof is to provide an cilicient burner for that purpose. Weaccomplish this object by the burner described herein and illustrated inthe accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side elevation partlyin scction of our improved burner. Fig. 2 is a plan of the hurner tip.Fig. is a central orizontal section of the oil chamber of the tip..l-igs. 4 and 5 are details of the steam, oil and separating plate.

In the drawings it is the casing of the oil distributing chamber B ofthe burner tip which is connected by the pipe (7 with a suitable oilsupply, not shown. On the pipe C is a regulating valve 1) by means ofwhich the supply of oil passing to the humor tip is regulated. The oilpipe is screwed into the rear end oi the casing and is connected bychannels E-with the distributing chamber. These channels are preferablybored through the material of which the casing is con structed which ispreferably cast iron or steel. The top and. bottom of the distributingchamber is closed by porlorated plates l which will be called thc oil.closure plates.

These plates have one or more perforations l* for t e passage of oil outof the chambers.

The size and number of these perforations are regulated by the capacitydesired. Above and below these top and bottom plates are the spreaderplates G. Above and below these spread-er plates are the plates H whichwe will call steam closure plates which form one portion of the casingof the steam or atomizing fluid chambers 1 of which there are two, oneabove and one belovi the oil chamber. These steam plates are cut out inthe center to form steam ports J. These steam plates extend outWa-rclyas far as the oil plates. The oil, spreader and steam plates arepreferably riveted together 0y a rivet passing through a hole K shown inFigs. 4 and 5 in the rear portion of the plates.

wre L of the steam chambers are Specification of Letters Patent.

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Pat nted Jan. 5, 1909.

threadcd'i or the reception of pipes Ill. and ii which are connected topipe 0 whichleads to a suitable supply of steam or other cxpanr siblefluid not shown. The pipes M and l are provided with regulating cocks Pand by means of which the steam. to the respective steam. chambersinclependenti re nlated. A cock on the pipe 0 enahles t operator tocut-oil the entire supply of r cam. theretluough. For a. burner designedfor a 250 horse power bo' inch oeriorations in each plategi'resatisfactory results.

In the drawings we haw shown the oil chamber casing tapering toward thefront as we deem this the best construction, because the flame can bethrown u .vmrdly by admitting more steam into the lower steam chamberthan in the upper on e, or downwardly by admitting more steam into theupper chamber than'in the lower chamber, or can be thrown centrally byadmittin the same quantity into each. i desired iowever, the Faces-ofthe oil chamberma be made parallel. The steam and oil chambers and the"plates are securely united by a bolt S which passes therethrough and isprovided with a nut 'l on its end. It will be seen that by thisconstruction we have provided two steam jets, or two jets of air orother expansible fluid for the atomization oi' the oil and that the oilis delivered into the path oi two streams o'l e.:-

- small tire is desired the steam. may be cut oil entirely from one ofthe steam cl'iambers and the oil will only issue out oi the oil rharubcrinto the path of the :eam iron). the active steam cl'ian'iber, therebyenabling us to burn a Very small tire. We have also found in pra micethat the extension oi the steam plate as far as the oil plate and by ha\ing the sn'eadcr plate wideningtoward the front that there is a suctionon the oil from the oil chamber which does not exist when the steamchamber terminates before the oil ports are reached as shown in ourPatent No. 712143 of date Oct. 28bit. 1902. It will also be seen thatthe oil steam and spreader plates are each indenendentl removable sothat the spread of name or on acit of the. burner can be quickly changeuchanging ii ii" compressor: air is us;

being separated at their front portions and 5 provider with orts, theports in the oil chamber being in front of the ports in the fluidchamber and being adapted to discharge oil into the path oi the fluidfrom the fluid chambers at substantially right angles to the flow ofsaid fluid.

v 2. In aliydrocarbon burner two independently controlled expansiblelluid chambers,

and an oil chamber between said fluid chani- I here, all of saidchambers having ports so located that the oil from the oil chamber isdischar ed into the paths of the l'luid from the fluid chambers withinthe burner substantially right angles thereto.

3. In a hydrocarbonburner an oil chamber provided with ports in twosides thereof; independently regulated expansible fluid chambers havingports in the rear of the ports of the oil chamber adapted to dischargethe fluid therefrom across the path of the oil issuing from the oilchamber.

4. In a hydrocarbon burner an oil chamber provided with a closure havingports therein; an expansible lluid chamber provided with a closurehaving a nort therein at the rear of the ports of the oil chamber andadapted to discharge fluid across the ports from the oil chamber; saidclosure of said fluid chamber extending parallel with the closure of theoil chamber and to point beyond the oil ports and beim i'e1novable;.aspreader plate between the clbsure of the oil and fluid chambers incontact with both, said spreader plate being cut out atits central front)ortion as described whereby said oil and li uid are discharged from acommon outlet.

l i l 5. In a hydrocarbon burner an oil chamber having the top andbottom tapering toward the front; closure )lates having ports thereinsecured to said 0 amber; expansible fluid chambers one above and onebelow said oil chamber, said fluid chambers having closure plates withports therein, said ports being back of the ports of the oil chamber andbeing adapted to discharge fluid across said oil ports, the closureplates of-the (511 and fluid chambers at each side of the oil chamberhavin their adjacent outside surfaces parallel; s )reader plates betweensaid oil and fluid chamber closure plates.

6. In a hydrocarbon burner an oilchambcr wider at the rear than at thefront; closure plates having ports therein removable; securedio saidchamber; independently regdlated eXp-ansible fluid chambers one aboveand one below said oil chamber; closure )lates removably secured to saidexpansible uid chambers; said last plates having ports therein back ofthe ports of the oil chamber and bein 1 parallel to the closure platesof said oil chain er; spreader platesbetween said oil and fluid chamberclosure plates.

7. In a hydrocarbon burneran oil chamber; a closure plate havin portstherein for said chamber; an ex )ansib e fluid chamber; a removableclosure p l her having a port therein at the rear of the oil chamberports, said closure plates extending to the front of the burner andbeing parallel; a spreader plate between said closure plates saidspreader plate being cut out at its central front portion as described,whereby said oil and fluid are discharged from a common outlet.

In witness that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto subscribed ournames this 14th day of May/1904.

' CHARLES R. KlF'lliE.

GEORGE E. HARPIIAM. Witnesses:

hlARGARETE (I. NICKELESON ARTHUR W. Hannrsou.

ate for said fluid cham-

